Tteok, rice cake, made by roughly grinding, kneading, and shaping barley, wheat, etc., in a round, flat shape.

(figurative) Something or someone that is ugly, bad, and not satisfactory.

A grain powder milled to be made into tteok, rice cake.

Flour sprinkled on tteok, rice cake, in order to improve its shape and taste.

(figurative) A small extra profit obtained while doing something.

A dish made by cutting garaetteok, rice cake stick, into thin slices and boiling them in clear broth.

A large wooden hammer used to pound cooked rice to make tteok, rice cake.

Bait made by adding bean flour or pupa powder to rice bran, kneading the mix, and dividing it into small lumps.

The act of pounding rice to make it into tteok, rice cake, or the pounder itself.

Round clayware with small holes in its bottom, used to steam tteok, rice cake.

Tteok, rice cake, made by mixing beans, adzuki beans, etc., with rice flour and steaming in siru, round, broad, flat vessel.

Tteok, rice cake, made from grains with glutinousness, such as glutinous rice.

A Korean pancake, which originated from China, made by pan-frying a flat, round dough kneaded with wheat or glutinous rice flour and stuffed with sweet fillings such as sugar.

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land mass; territory

land-winning game; land expansion game: A children's game in which a player flicks a small stone and wins the area the stone lands on

bare ground

ground ball; grounder

peanut

occasionally

because; because of

rice cake; mat; broad; all of a sudden; strongly

rice powder

throw-in; extra; addition

sliced rice cake soup

rice cake hammer

paste bait

rice pounding

earthenware steamer

fall; drop; be reduced to; fall into; be handed over; be taken over; arrive; get to; reach; be disaffected toward; take a disgust at; be put off by; be assigned; be given; be sent; be delivered; lag behind; be inferior to; lose; be defeated; be unsuccessful; lag; separate from; come off; be removed; slip; leave; lose contact with; be severed; be cut off; be away from; be apart from; decline; decrease; be cured; be healed; recover from; get over; go down; sink; be gained; be earned; run out of; be out of; be lost; be spoiled; dry up; wear out; wear away; fray; become threadbare; die; pass away; miscarry; be clearly divided without a remainder; fall short of; be left unpaid; be uttered; be said; be turned on; diminish; weaken; be reduced

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A dish made by steaming or boiling grain powder such as injeolmi, rice cake coated with red bean powder or soy bean powder, and songpyeon, half-moon-shaped rice cake, etc.

(figurative) Hair that is matted due to lack of washing, etc.

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